Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Health Sector (eBook)

Ebola-Affected Countries in West Africa

Mohamed Kanu, Charles Williams, Elizabeth Williams (Herausgeber)

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2021
134 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4577-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Health Sector: Ebola-Affected Countries in West Africa examines the 20142016 Ebola crisis in three West African countries. The authors argue that this public health disaster was exacerbated by the lack of cultural competency in emergency response efforts. Considering the role of culture in the social, economic, health-related, and political dynamics that made these countries particularly vulnerable to the disease and how culturally competent approaches could have been employed sooner to reduce risk and prevent death and disability, this book serves as a guide for government officials, nongovernmental relief agencies, healthcare professionals, and public health personnel on how to effectively center cultural competence in emergency response to infectious disease outbreaks.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
• Co-Autor: Regina Bash-Taqi, Gloria Crawford, Mohamed Kanu, Charles Williams, Elizabeth Williams
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 3 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: cultural awareness • Cultural Bias • Cultural Competence • Cultural sensitivity • Disease Outbreaks • Ethnocentrism • Global Health • Guinea • Health crisis • international relief • Liberia • OUTBREAK RESPONSE • Public Health • Sierra Leone • Western biomedicine
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-4577-9 / 1793645779
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-4577-7 / 9781793645777